Library Catalogs

 

BU Catalog | Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Catalogs | Regional Catalogs | | Worldwide Catalogs

Most library catalogs can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Boston University Libraries Catalog - (telnet version)
Use this catalog to identify books, journals and other materials Boston University libraries own or to which electronic access is provided.

Krasker Film/Video Services Catalog
A searchable catalog of the films, videos and laser disks available at Krasker Film/Video Services, located at Boston University's Media Group, 985 Commonwealth Avenue. This is not a circulating library. For further information, call (617) 353-8112.

Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Catalogs

  • Virtual Catalog
    Request that a book at another library be sent to a Boston University library for you to borrow (BU community). Use this catalog to identify books owned by Boston Library Consortium (BLC) member institutions.
  • Internet Archive
    Access the fulltext of books scanned by members of the BLC and other libraries.
  • Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Catalogs
    Access the individual online library catalogs of the sixteen Boston Library Consortium (BLC) member institutions.
    Library | Catalog
    Boston College | BC Web Catalog
    Boston Public Library Research Collections | BPL's Web Catalog
    Boston University | BU Web Catalog
    Brandeis University | Brandeis Web Catalog
    Brown University | Brown Web Catalog
    Marine Bio Lab/Woods Hole Oceanog Inst | MBL/WHOI Web Catalog
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Web Catalog
    Massachusetts State Library | Mass. State Library Web Catalog
    Northeastern University | Northeastern's Web Catalog
    Tufts University | Tufts Web Catalog
    UMass--Amherst | UMass Amherst Web Catalog
    UMass--Boston | UMass Boston Web Catalog
    UMass --Dartmouth | UMass Dartmouth Web Catalog
    UMass-- Lowell | UMass Lowell Web Catalog
    UMass Medical | UMass Medical Web Catalog
    University of Connecticut | UConn Web Catalog
    University of New Hampshire | UNH Web Catalog
    Wellesley College | Wellesley Web Catalog
    Williams College | Williams Web Catalog

    Regional Catalogs

  • Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS)
    Access to the Union Catalog of the Harvard Libraries and to the Guide to Harvard Libraries.

  • Fenway Libraries Online
    Access to the union catalog combining the resources of a consortium of thirteen academic and special interest libraries in the Boston/Cambridge area.

  • Massachusetts Library Catalogs
    A directory to over 300 Massachusetts library catalogs.

  • Massachusetts Library Networks Catalogs
    Access to the nine regional Massachusetts library Network Catalogs under the auspices of Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

  • Minuteman Library Network Catalogs
    Direct and simultaneous access to the catalogs of the public libraries of: Acton, Arlington, Ashton, Bedford, Belmont, Brookline, Cambridge, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Lexington, Lincoln, Maynard, Medfield, Medford, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norwood, Somerville, Sudbury, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Winchseter, and Woburn.

    Worldwide Catalogs

  • Worldcat (available to the Charles River Campus and via proxy to Boston University community)
    Use this catalog to identify who owns materials not available at Boston University.
  • Includes: books, manuscripts, computer data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals, sound recordings, magazines, videotapes.
  • Worldcat does not include book chapters or individual articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.
  • Offers over 47 million records from over 40,000 libraries located in more than 75 countries and territiories and includes records representing 400 languages.
  • Materials identified in Worldcat may be requested by interlibrary loan.

  • Library of Congress
    Access to approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.

  • COPAC
    The union catalog for CURL (The Consortium of University Research Libraries) comprised of  "24 university research libraries in the UK and Ireland."

  • National Library Catalogues Worldwide
    Access to national library catalogs arranged alphabetically by country. National libraries attempt to collect all publications issued in their respective countries. Catalogs accessible via the Internet cannot be regarded as definitive.

  • LibDex
    Access and index to 18,000 library homepages and web-based library catalogs (OPACs-Online Public Access Catalogs). The directory does not include links to terminal-based library catalogs.

  • Libweb
    Access to library servers via the WWW for over 6100 pages from libraries in over 100 countries. For the United States includes lists for the following:
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